linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: restore original behavior of /proc/partition when there's no partition

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Date:	Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:53:24 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: restore original behavior of /proc/partition when  there's no partition

On Sat, Aug 30 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> /proc/partitions didn't use to write out the header if there was no
> partition.  However, recent commit 66c64afe changed the behavior.
> This is nothing major but there's no reason to change user visible
> behavior without a good rationale.  Restore the original behavior.
> 
> Note that 2.6.28 has clean up changes scheduled which will replace
> this rather hacky implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>

I agree, queued up.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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